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Confessions of a Light Skinned Black Girl: An Academic Mis-fit
Valin Skye Jordan
The George Washington University
��I was encouraged to write myself, my struggle, my meaning into existence� (Taliaferro-Baszile, 2006, p. 89).
I am human. I am an only child. I am a New Yorker. I am a daddy�s girl. I am a teacher. I am educated. I am independent. I am strong. I am misrepresented. I am unapologetic. I am invisible. I am hyper visible. I am emotionally unstable. I am conflicted. I am angry. I am numb. And I am exhausted with to having to define who I am. I am a Black woman. I am not Black first and then a woman. I am inextricably and undeniably so, a Black woman. And I, like Denise am encouraged to write myself, my struggle, and my meaning into existence.
Throughout my life there has been a stereotype, better yet a prescribed consciousness, that at times I have uncomfortably accepted as I have screamed with rage within my mind, while at other times I have chosen to resist this consciousness that is not mine and to �talk back� (hooks, 1989). �Black women who do not fit a stereotype do not make sense� (Boylorn, 2008, p. 418); so, needless to say, I do not make sense. My progression into Black womanhood by no means occurred easily and not until I entered the academy and discovered how to write myself out of my pain and anger did I realize it is okay that I do not make sense.
As a Black female I belong to a group - a culture - that has been socially defined. This social definition is expansive just as Collins (1986) reminds us, �Thus, there is no monolithic Black women�s culture - rather, there are socially-constructed Black women�s cultures that collectively form Black women�s culture� (p. 22). I am aware that as a Black female from Queens, N.Y. that my experiences cannot be essentialized to the lived experiences of all Black women nor can my mother�s experiences growing up in the South during the civil rights and Black power movements be essentialized back to me (Bell et al., 2000). Through my experience with difference amongst Black women and through Collins� words, I can now say I have every right to rearticulate this prescribed consciousness that exists about Black women (Collins, 1989) and about me. Through what Collins (1986) calls self-definition and self-valuation I am able to begin rearticulating the consciousness held about me.
As I have progressed into Black womanhood I have found varying modes of resistance to the oppressive and stereotypical constructions defined by dominant society. I have found the voices of the �Black women across generations� who, Guillory (2010) explains, �have built a language to defend or name in public, challenging the underlying power structures of naming by talking back to and against the dominant discourses that have tried to define who we are� (p. 211). Through the course of my life as an athlete and now as an academician I have used a range storytelling modalities, movement and words to push back against dominant discourse and to define myself accordingly. In this way my-ness, my Blackness, my Femaleness, and my Classness can only be defined and redefined by me. I have struggled with attempting to �define� my-ness in order to fit in two worlds - the Black community and the pervasive White supremacist society. I do not use the term White supremacist to cause shock to my readers but rather I use the term to define the politically and historically situated world that my Black female body has been surviving in for 28 years. My struggle is a result of wanting to be enough in two worlds but yet resisting wanting to be accepted in either world.
Defining the Methodology
This narrative exists as a form of interpretive biography. Denzin (1989) posits that interpretive biographies whether written in biographical or autobiographical form exist with an �other� in mind. The �other� is studied and explored through �life documents or documents of life� (p. 7). In this autobiographical writing - a performative text - I explore Taliaferro�s (1998) question, �What is it that we learn about our �selves� as we exist in the imaginations of others� (p. 94)? I position my 13-year-old self and 28-year-old self in a conversation in which they discuss the moves made to resist the �inner eye� of the dominant world. I use the imaginations of others as the sites for where I learned and continue to learn to resist and �talk back� against the �inner eye� of the dominant White society.
In the first conversation I explore my parents� parenting as the �starting block� for my resistance. The conversation begins with an expression of the tension felt by my 13-year-old self and a response from my 28-year-old self. As the conversation transitions between my �selves�, I provide an analysis in order to contextualize the tension felt by my 13 and 28-year-old selves. The conversation in the first section concludes with my two selves working concurrently in conversation to understand the mode of resistance they had been taught. In the second section of the paper, I provide another synchronous conversation about an interview I had with a headmaster of an Upper East Side, N.Y private school. This conversation is an expression of my acceptance and resistance to the prescribed consciousness. Within this section I use Helfenbein�s (2010) notions of place and space to explore and analyze the binaries that functioned within this school that I accepted and attempted to resist. The final section of this paper I present how I have come to use curriculum theory to create a space for me to �fit� in a place where I am a mis-fit. I have come to this performance through the power and refuge provided by Black feminist thought and curriculum theory. I use this performance to add to the scholarship about the modes of resistance used by Black female scholars.
Developing my Resistance to the Dominant World
13-year-old Valin: She thinks I can�t see it. She thinks I can�t see the way my teachers look at me. Like I�m this exotic extraterrestrial being. She thinks I can�t see the way they glare at me with amazement and disgust at the same time. She thinks I�m walking around with blinders on. Like I don�t know what the world sees when they see me. She thinks I can�t hear the things my teachers and everyone else says about me behind my back. She thinks I�m not listening. She thinks I have no idea. And sometimes I think she�s trying to protect me from it. Because without a doubt she is a pit bull. And other times I think she wants me and needs me to handle it alone. But she�s afraid because she thinks they will swallow me alive. She thinks I�ll crumble so she holds tight, she�s shielded me to the best of her ability. She instills and forces the voices and words of Richard Wright, Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Maya Angelou, my great-grandmother, and grandmother down my throat. She thinks I haven�t been listening to her. But, my words to her and everybody else are impregnated with the pain, struggle, and blood of those who came before me. But I just choose to respond to the world differently. I�m a fighter and always have been. I back down from no one. Silence? I don�t know silence! Passive? Passive I am not! She and everyone else taught me to speak my truth. So I speak. Even when they don�t like it. So I know how they look at me - the �they� in my community look at me like the light complexion black girl who thinks she�s �all that�. I know how they – the �they� I sometimes see myself through looks at me. I can see how they look at me amazed and disgusted that at 13 I�ve read Shakespeare, Alcott, Poe, Frost, Hughes, and I can recite Ain�t I a Woman like I wrote it. That I know more about my history than they will ever know. But, she doesn�t believe that. What she sees is not herself. What she sees is that I�ve rejected reading lots by Black authors. What she sees is that I don�t care if my friends aren�t Black. What she doesn�t see is that I can see the amazement and disgust in her eyes too. And what she doesn�t see is that I fear her more than the rest of the world. That I will never be black enough, womanly enough, or know the struggle and work it took for her and my father to give me the life I live. She thinks I don�t know.
The tension I felt as a 13-year-old was based on reading the world around me. I was aware of the �inner eyes� of the rest of the world that I was attempting to renounce, including that of my mother. My 13-year-old self was attempting to prove that I could read what was and was not present in the reality that I functioned. At the same time I was expressing a definition of myself by not maintaining silence and choosing to ascribe to multiple worldviews as a way of defining my position in society. My inclination at 13 to ascribe to multiple worldviews is what Collins and others refer to as �multiple consciousness�. I was not rejecting reading Black authors or having Black friends rather I was attempting to develop a consciousness of two worlds. In doing so I began developing my �outsider within� status (Collins, 1986).
As an �outsider within� I am positioned as the other but I have an awareness of white male dominant thought. I allow my consciousness as a Black female to influence how I think about and use dominant thought. Lorde (1984) posits that oppressed individuals develop a consciousness of this kind in order to survive, �they become familiar with the language and manners of the oppressor, even sometimes adopting them for some illusion of protection� (p. 114). Using Lorde�s words, my choice to read more than Black authors and make friends outside of the Black community was my attempt at facilitating my survival process.
28-year-old Valin (speaking to the 13-year-old): She still thinks you have no idea. She still fears that they will eat you alive. She�s even more worried about you now that you�ve entered the academy, the ivory towers, higher education, whatever they call this place. She knows that it�s lonely for you. And now more than ever in a place that used to be known as �Chocolate City� she fears losing you to a world that didn�t want you in the first place. She�s scared that because you don�t have the unlucky good fortune that she does to be high yellow and freckled that you will be rejected. She fears that you will never procreate a family because you�ll allow yourself to sink in the psychologically violent and unfriendly place they call the academy. She fears that now she did it all wrong. She told you not to be silent and not to be passive and you refuse to be either but now it seems to make sense to just be quiet. Valin you�ve lost your voice. Or have you? And your voice and her voice are in your written works. See right now you�re a dancer and long jumper. Your voice is in your athletic movements. You speak and are visible through your movements. You have figured out how to deal with not belonging in two worlds by moving. He told you leave it all on the runway and leave it all on the stage. He told you to be quiet and know the strength of your movements.
The tension my 28-year-old self feels is the opposite of my 13-year-old self. I have yet to determine how best to be visible in this new place - the academy. I have come to form my cultural contracts (Jackson, 2002 as cited in Harris, 2007). Harris writes,
Racialized individuals are continually placed in contexts where a cultural contract is warranted. The cultural context process is an implicit agreement of one interactant to ascribe to the typology that most appropriately addresses how that person chooses to negotiate his or her racial identity in the company of racially different others.
The paradox that exists for me, then, is attempting to maintain my Blackness in a place where my Blackness is often rejected. Implicitly agreeing to silence my Blackness in the presence of the racially identified other causes me to refract my Self when in the presence of the other, ultimately, not being able to define my association in two-worlds because of the constant refracting of the Self. Crocco and Waite (2007) argue that educational attainment of Black women brings them respect but at the same creates �a sense of isolation and marginality, even within their own community� (p. 74). As, a Black female in the academy I am attempting to negotiate my cultural contract via the notion of silence.
13-year-old Valin: I know what he told me. He told me to be an athlete. He told me to hang upside down from a pull up bar like I was Rocky or somebody. He told me to stop being such a girl. He told me to toughen up. He wants me to be tougher. But she fears that because of him that I�ll lose my femininity. She fears that my father is doing it all wrong.
28-year-old Valin: He didn�t do it all wrong, neither of them did. He�s preparing you to be physically and mentally strong to withstand this place. He�s making sure that if he walks away you can handle it all. He�s not scared. He�s not afraid something will happen to you because as far as he�s concerned he did it right. He made you the athlete you are. He made you ready to handle whatever comes your way. He knows he did it right.
This newest place for my academic success is defined by my father�s assertion to know the strength of my silence and the loudness of my movements. The performances of my movements at 13 years old were used to expressively define myself as an athlete and as an individual. I was using creative expression as a dancer and athlete to shape my self-definitions and self-valuations (Collins, 1986). Collins argues for �the role of creative expression in shaping and sustaining Black women�s self-definitions and self-valuations� (p. 23). Defining and valuing my consciousness as a Black female allows me the space to challenge dominant ideologies held about me; I�m able to push back on the political and historical stereotypical images formed about Black females. The silence that my father insisted I channel into my movements as an athlete was my display of creative expression; an expression that allowed me the space to resist objectification and assert my subjectivity as a Black woman. The translation of my athletic movements or creative expression represents the transgressive nature by which I perform or move as a Black female in the academy. Through the teachings of both my parents I have come to know what it is to resist and talk back.
Acceptance and Resistance Flood My Consciousness
The conversation to follow presents an experience that I had with a headmaster of an Upper East Side private school in New York City. It was my first obvious experience highlighting that I did not belong or was not wanted in a particular place. Helfenbein (2010) writes, �For geographers, place is the localized community - filled with meaning for those that spend time there. Quite simply, it has significance� (p. 306). From this I understand place to be the physical area/location that one exists in that has meaning �for those that spend time there� (p. 306). Helfenbein (2010) argues that �Space constructed through discursive, interpretive, lived, and imagined practices becomes place� (p. 306). Space, then is created from the subjectivity or the meaning making practices that enter a place in order to develop and shape that place; I understand those to be the �Forces of economic, social, and cultural practices [that] work on both the inhabitants of the place and work to form the place itself� (Helfenbein, 2010, p. 306).
The school where I was interviewed for middle school admission is geographical located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in the wealthiest congressional district in America. This place was/is shaped by the subjectivities of those that inhabit (investment bankers, lawyers, doctors, CEOs) this place as well as the luxuriously expensive sky-scraping homes of Park and Madison Avenues that hug the perimeter of the school. This single gendered predominately White school had a particular identity that allowed it to sustain as a place that functioned with binaries: self/other, us/them, oppressor/oppressed, and White/Black. The binaries that were established in this place were clear boundaries. They were boundaries that did not allow for complete border crossing, as that border crossing would have impacted, complicated, and disrupted the identity of this place. The conversation between the headmaster and me shows the oppressive and colonizing theories that have created us/them or White/Black binaries or boundaries.
We can understand the binaries that constitute place through post-colonial theory. Asher (2010) writes �How, then, do we decolonize curriculum so that it enables us to deconstruct such binaries as self and other, margins and center so that the self unlearns the internalization of the oppressor?� (p. 397). Hendry (2010, 2011) reminds us that these binaries are what allow curriculum to continue to function in colonizing terms and must be unlearned through historical contexts; in other words, the binaries or the boundaries need to be complicated and disrupted. In the conversation that proceeds I express how I recognized the binaries that existed which were going to keep me from entering this school.
13 year old Valin: So now what? Because this is difficult. I have no idea what they want from me. I�m about to start high school at this posh place. I should have picked somewhere else to go. A public high school. But, I�m about to spend more time in a private parochial school. I know how they look at me and what they say about me behind my back �she thinks she�s better than everyone because she�s been in private school her entire life�. What they don�t know is that I don�t fit in the �private� school world. That interview at East Side Park Academy* still upsets me. Why in the world would they want to send me there? My body wouldn�t have fit there. My knowledge wouldn�t have fit there. I live in Queens I don�t belong amongst the chichi types of Madison and Park avenues. But, that was for 7th grade. Now I made the choice to go to this chichi place in Queens. I�m not going to belong there either!
28 year old Valin: That interview at East Side Park Academy will never leave you. You were 11 trying to figure out the right answers to give to this 6 o�clock figured woman sitting in a black suit with gold oval shaped buttons on her jacket. Her black rimmed glasses were on a red and gold linked croaky and she pulled them down to sit right across her nostrils and stared through you with her light brown eyes and said �You�re a good writer, what do your parents do?� And in that moment all I could think was my parents� occupations have something to do with me being a good writer? And I panicked. Because circling through my brain was don�t tell her your father is a commercial roofer. He isn�t her type of people and I�m not going to be good enough to be here if I tell her that. So I said very quietly with my heart in my throat, my mother is a director of special market sales. And I looked at her nervous and she looked at me quizzically and asked, �Do you know what that means?� I said no. She then followed it with, �Do you know how much your mother makes annually?� I could have made up a number because I had an idea, but I said no. And I started screaming in my head thinking, my mother wants me to go here but I was uncomfortable in that space because how dare she ask me that. I thought I could get away with the humiliation by only claiming my class because of my mother�s occupation. But, in one smooth free flowing question she asked, �What does your father do and how often do you see him?� My heart sank. This woman had me pegged as a �typical� kid from Queens. I didn�t know what to say next; do I say he owns the commercial roofing company. Should I lie? Instead I chose to tell her the exact truth. Because my truth is all I know and my truth is what defines me. So I said proudly and confidently, �My father, who lives with us and is married to my mother, is a commercial roofer in New Jersey�. I was hoping the interview ended after that and I could be put out of the shame this woman wanted me to feel. But, the bashing kept going. That woman didn�t care what I knew and that I was good writer. She wanted to know why my light complexioned Black body thought it deserved to be there, better yet, why I thought I belonged there. She wanted to know how cultured I was. She wanted to know the last time I had been to a Broadway show. I lied and told her I had never been. She asked me if I knew where my mother�s office was located. She asked me if I had ever been to her office. She asked me if I could name landmarks around my mother�s office. Like lady really?! Name landmarks near her office? She had me pegged for the media image of a kid from Queens. I knew what she thought. She looked at me amazed and disgusted too. So I indignantly said, �F.A.O. Shwartz, St. Patrick�s Cathedral, Central Park, the Italian shoe maker guy on the corner that I�ve been getting my shoes from since I was able to walk, Prada, oh and my favorite store Niketown.� I didn�t know whether to cry or laugh in that moment, because this woman had completely racialized me and I let her. But, it was amusing watching this thin white woman squirm and become uncomfortable by the places I had indicated as �landmarks.� She asked me if I had any extracurricular activities. I lied and told her no. I started dancing at the age of 4; I had competed the summer before that interview at the Junior Olympics, I played the saxophone, I volunteered and spent time with my grandfather and his 369th military buddies; but I let her have that one too. I let her believe I didn�t belong there and I allowed it to happen because I didn�t want to be there and at 11 I didn�t know how to tell her white self that she was wrong about the kid from Queens. I walked out of that interview confused. That was the first time it was obvious how �they� saw me. She walked me down to the lobby to meet my mother, and I looked at this lighter version of me with freckles all around her eyes and she asked me with anticipation �How did it go?� I just glared at her and the 6 o�clock shaped woman said �I�ll be in touch�. I didn�t say a word when we walked out and caught a cab. She just kept asking, �Valin what happened? What did she ask you?� And all I could manage to say low and despondently �She asked what your jobs were. I don�t want to go here or any other school in the city.� And again she said �What happened, do we need to go back?!� I just wanted to go home. I didn�t talk much the rest of that day or the days following. Later that week I took the test for all the private schools in NYC. I walked in that room- the only Black body in the room, and thought I don�t know why I�m doing this. The essay on the test was to choose an animal that characterizes you and why? And without hesitation I wrote I am a gazelle. In this very moment I am a gazelle. The beautiful and graceful moving animal that spans the deserts of Africa that are known to have quick speed and since the danger that lurks nearby. I am a gazelle. Every moment of my life I have learned to be a gazelle, to love the few stripes that I do have that cover my tanned skin. I know that even when I am the want of my predators who don�t want to see me survive I stand strong and beautiful. I am a gazelle. I wrote seven sentences and closed the book and handed it back to the proctor. I walked out the room and there was my mom and her friend and simultaneously they asked �So how was it?� I gave the normal kid answer �fine�. But my mother wanted to know more, so I told her I had to pick an animal that describes me. She asked what I chose. I said a gazelle. So then she asked, �Well what did you write?� I lied and said, �I don�t remember.� I knew what I wrote. I still remember what I wrote. But, I couldn�t tell her what I wrote, because even though she wanted to heighten my Blackness and thought I didn't know my Blackness, if I had told her what I wrote she would have been upset because in that moment I was to pull back from my Blackness and try to fit. But I don�t�
My experience with applying for academic and social acceptance at this school showcases the prescribed consciousness that exists about me as a Black female. At 11 years old I was unclear as to how to rearticulate this consciousness that pervaded my existence. I accepted that I did not belong there but my responses during the interview and the essay for the private schools of New York City (just Manhattan) proved that I was attempting to resist being part of a world that handed me a prescribed consciousness about myself. My subtle comments to the headmaster about my father and the places I indicated as landmarks during the interview showed that I was �talking back� and would not allow her to define me as a Black child who she believed was fatherless and unaware of city she lives in. My inclination to resist entering a place that had created binaries within its space was clear in the essay I wrote for the private school entrance exam. I had visualized myself as a gazelle that has been standing strong to her predators - dominant White society and the prescribed consciousness constantly being handed to her, I had created my own curricular construction of myself (Taliaferro-Baszile, 2010). The experience I had applying for social and academic acceptance into the private school world of New York City is only part of the answer to Asher�s question; in order for us to decolonize curriculum and for the self to unlearn the internalization of the oppressor, the self has to be willing to resist, �talk back�, and rearticulate the consciousness given by the oppressor, ��this rearticulated consciousness gives African American women another tool of resistance to all forms of their subordination� (Collins, 1989, p. 750).
The Present Moment
I do not fit. It was obvious when I began my first seminar class; I am the only Black female in my cohort. It was obvious when I began reading in the academy; the Black voices that contributed to the development of American education were silenced. It was obvious when I began stating my research interest; my cohort was skeptical of providing me with feedback. It was obvious when I began teaching a diversity course as an adjunct professor; my White female students were visibly and verbally amazed by �how much I know� and extremely uncomfortable by the critical stance I asked them to take to discussing the course topics. It was obvious when one of the graduate school�s academic affairs directors said, �From what I�ve heard about you, I expected you to look different. I was looking for someone much bigger and darker than you�. I do not fit. I engage in spaces in this place where I feel the need to tread lightly. If I say too much about my interest in race, racism, and practices of Whiteness in elementary school classrooms, I may not �make it� to my dissertation. If I say too much in the diversity course that pushes the White female pre-service teachers out of their comfort zone, I may be asked to never teach the course again. My mis-fit in this place has pushed me �to work consciously and critically to make myself subject in this place where I don�t quite belong� (Taliaferro, 2006, p. 205).
I have learned to work consciously and critically to cross a border. I have brought my identity and sense of place as a Black woman from Queens into the academy which has spaces that �speak[s], leak[s], and [have] possibility� (Helfenbein, 2010, p. 310). The academy often does not speak to subjectivity or my subjectivity as a racial subject. Yet, my subjectivity and lived experiences are able to leak in to create how one comes to make sense of this place and have a space of possibility �to understand the racial self as a curricular construction� (Taliaferro-Baszile, 2010, p. 485). The preceding performance adds to Taliaferro-Baszile�s (2010) notion that �multiple and varied voices can intervene� (p. 484) into the dialogical nature of curriculum theory; that is, to examine racial subjects as objects of study but also to use those racial subjects as the lens to how we shape curriculum theory.
Collins (1989) argues that Black women academicians need to be ready for potentially being rejected for not having a valid knowledge base. So here I am�a Black woman in the academy. I have retreated to this place because of the spaces (theory) created to assist me with writing myself into existence and allowing my existence - my subjectivities, to leak into particular spaces to add to the dialogical nature of curriculum theory.
In this space of possibility I am able to use my subjectivity as a Black female to think about what needs to be done to decolonize curriculum. �Black women have got to resist, imagine, and insist upon a different world� (Green, 2012, p. 149). I am using my �outsider within� status to influence how I resist, imagine, and insist upon a different definition of curriculum - a definition that subverts the constraining and oppressive structures. Collins (1986) maintains that those with �outsider within� positions are able to �learn to trust their own personal and cultural biographies as significant sources of knowledge� (p. 29). My experiences as I have grown into Black womanhood add to the proliferation of the curriculum field. I understand that my autobiography has meaning to reshaping how Black females are seen in society.
I began this piece with Taliaferro-Baszile�s question �What do we learn about our �selves� as we exist in the imagination of others�? I learned how I exist in the imagination of others. And, I learned how to create forms of resistance to pull myself out of the imagination of others. Knowing how I exist in the imagination of the racial other is what pushed me to write this paper. Knowing how I exist in the imagination of the racial other allowed me the room to have this emotional purging and to rearticulate the prescribed consciousness held about me. I came to this paper with the idea to tell my story and to write myself into existence as an individual Black female, not realizing that writing myself into existence with theory would allow me the space to speak, to leak into the proliferation of the field, and to have the possibility for decolonizing a curriculum that allows the self to resist, talk back, and unlearn the internalizations of the oppressor.
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Muriel Barbery Quotes About DyingQuotes about: Dying
Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death. ...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that's what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.
This morning I understand what it means to die: when we disappear, it is the others who die for us, for here I am, lying on a cold pavement and it is not the dying I care about; it has no more meaning this morning that it did yesterday. But never again will I see those I love, and if that is what dying is about then it really is the tragedy they say it is.
Muriel Barbery
- Born: May 28, 1969
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Could the Dutch Realistically Ban Gas And Diesel Cars?
The Netherlands is home to world-famous tulip fields, canals, masterful works of art, and bicycle culture, just to name a few things. Diesel and gas cars might be disappearing from the country's landscape, however, as its legislative branch is considering a ban on their sale as soon as 2025.
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The motion was proposed by the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA), and has actually passed through the parliament's lower chamber. A ban on diesel and gas car sales would supposedly only apply to new cars, so the Dutch wouldn't have to prepare to make a new car purchase by 2025. Even hybrids and plug-in hybrids would be banned under the new law, as they still consume fossil fuels. That leaves us with 100% electric cars, like the Nissan LEAF.
While the plan sounds like a great way to finally stop car emissions once and for all, there are a few issues. EV sales only accounted for about 10% of new car sales in the Netherlands last year. That's a lot of constituents members of Parliament would have to convince that this is a good idea. Also, there is the perpetual issue of infrastructure with EVs. While Europe in general seems to have more charging stations set up for EVs than America, is the country really ready with enough charging stations to serve all of those cars?
Plugged In: The Nissan LEAF might soon be part of the cloud
Another bump in the road to this proposal becoming fully realized is the issue of supply. The new Dutch law would certainly raise demand for EVs, but is there enough time between now and 2025 for manufacturers to bulk up their plants to meet new manufacturing needs? Especially since 100% electric vehicles don't currently seem to be nearly as popular as their hybrid cousins, thanks to hybrids allowing drivers to keep going after the battery range is depleted.
Time will tell if this ban actually becomes law, and if the law will be enforceable. We have to give the Dutch credit, though, for fully committing to lowering greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
News Source: The Guardian


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State Language Legislation 2000
Anti-Bilingual Education Initiative Sponsored by U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and the Washington, D.C.-based One Nation Indivisible, headed by Linda Chavez. INVALIDATED by the Colorado Supreme Court; 7/10/00; will not appear on the 2000 ballot.
Petitioners Target Bilingual Ed
Bilingual Issue Removed from Nov. 7 Ballot Colorado
Supreme Court declares measure deceptive and misleading.


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| heart chapter 1 . 3/3/2017
| driftveilings chapter 1 . 7/15/2010
...That song
Er, it's kind of my favorite.
All time. Ever.
And this one shot perfectly corresponds with it.
I applaud you for this.
| Maybreakmyheart chapter 1 . 4/24/2009
| Sandy Sparkle chapter 1 . 11/22/2008
I really enjoyed reading this. -thumbs up-
| frigoetmoi chapter 1 . 9/13/2008
its funny, i felt this once, but of course no to the point of killing, just leaving. haha. its one of those things where you yourself feels depressed because the other is too perfect.
| Nessa Veneanar chapter 1 . 8/15/2008
Love the twist that the ending takes!
I agree with Alaka's theory mostly; the male character doesn't come across as a sociopath.
I think it says a lot about our human ideals. On TV, in our books, on the internet... the men and women of our romances are (mostly) supposed to be drop-dead gorgeous, even more so with the kind of typical teenage romance story (no offense to teenagers- I'm one myself- or their romances). But would we really be happy with someone who has ~no flaws~?
Like the woman, this story has no glaring flaws (bad pun, I know). :) The prose draws you in, and the use of short, simple lines to break up larger sections make the piece almost lyrical. And of course, the final line packs quite a punch.
| the ignorance of it all chapter 1 . 8/4/2008
I love this. It's so... beautiful.
The story itself is perfect, flawless.
Absolutely amazing.
Please, for the sake of the world, keep writing. )
| Alaka chapter 1 . 2/13/2008
I found this rather interesting. Your story reminded me of something my friend told me, that certain men (or was it most?) are intimidated by beautiful or talented women. I don't think that your protagonist is exactly a sociopath, as one reviewer pointed out. Rather, he seems more intimidated by her and feels insecure consequently. Like how he wishes she were flawed.
Maybe he's just afraid of losing her. Or maybe she's so perfect that he can't reach out, since all he wants to do is fix something, i.e. play a part in the relationship that makes him look meaningful.
Anyway, I really liked your use of language. You don't burden your work with adjectives, but when they come they sound silky and fragile:
* walls thin as paper
* blue, translucent curtains she picked out last week
* static noise like God's bullets bouncing off the windowpanes
How can I wrap this up? I liked how effectively you ended things. The lyric was so simple, yet so conveying. Keep writing! :)
| vocecara chapter 1 . 12/23/2007
the classic 'too perfect; no flaws' kind of person? don't quite get it. he wants to kill her because she's so flawless?
scrap that. if i met someone like that i'd want to kill her too.
| emerald chapter 1 . 12/13/2007
*shudder* Gotta be careful about who you end up with, huh. Good job on making it so realistic and touching.
| Why My Fic chapter 1 . 11/30/2007
I will be quite honest this story does sound somewhat like the Told(?) tale Heart But other than that it has gooding wording and great use of similies and metaphores.
Nice job
| relapse into change chapter 1 . 11/9/2007
this is beautiful
and perfectly written
& i love it
(you probely want to hear more then that
but i'm not really a good reviewer sorry)
it's going on my favorites though :)
| d666lisa chapter 1 . 11/1/2007
| for keeps chapter 1 . 9/1/2007
This is... it's beautiful. And I know that must be such a mundane review, and that you must want to hear more than that, but it's really all I can come up.
It left me reeling, and I'm still trying to pick apart your pretty words and get to the meaning. This is one I'll be thinking about for a while.
| tstj chapter 1 . 8/7/2007
How disturbing.
Love or hate? I can't tell.


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Think of your worst day. What would it be? Horrible to think about, I know. So let's take what your second worst day would look like. Or even what you constitute as a regular bad day. What does it consist of?
Maybe a pipe freezes in your basement then bursts, needing repair work when you don't really have the extra funds to cover it.
Your employer suddenly gets mad at you, only to find a coworker lied about your performance behind your back.
How about you get a bad grade on a test that was essential for you to move forward in a class or a field you desperately needed to do well in.
Car accident. Turns out you didn't have collision insurance, and you have no idea where the $2,400.00 is going to come from to get your car back on the road, the car that you need to get to and from your job everyday.
And the list goes on. Granted, any one of the scenarios would be unfortunate. And more than likely, you've had a variation of one or all of them happen in your life. But the question I'd like you to consider is, does this constitute a truly bad day for you, even in it's most mild definition?
One thing I struggle with most is that God observes the entire world at one time, not just my world. Which begs me to ask Him, how do my bad days compare relative to the rest of humanity's bad days? I won't be so bold as to presume I know God's actual thoughts on the issues, but a quick look at statistical research allows some fairly reasonable assumptions.
With only 570 million cars distributed among more than 6.69 billion people, about 8.5% of the world's population owns a vehicle. Fewer still own something a middle class American would consider "nice." (Just picture a 1980's rust bucket Toyota from Man On Fire). That means more than 6 billion (six billion) people can't even imagine owning [in their wildest dreams] what you scorn as a bane to your family budget.
That pipe bursting? Just be glad you haven't died at the hands of your faucet yet. (You know, that shiny lever over the stainless steel basin in your kitchen that instantly grants you clean water within a few degrees of the temperature you want it at). The UN recently announced that contaminated water has killed more human beings than all our wars combined.
And as for your tests in academia or your vocational trials, be glad you even have the opportunity to go to school or land a decent job. 72 million children are out of school around the world, a figure equivalent to the entire primary school-aged population in Europe and North America. And almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day. And not because they want to.
Feeling grateful yet?
Oh, and just in case your worst day ever does happen (which for me would be the unthinkable: losing my wife and children), then you'd join the conservatively estimated 1 million families in Sudan, 1.5 million families in Rwanda, and countless millions of families in Burma, Vietnam, Tibet, and China (to name a few) that have endured–or are currently enduring–daily loss of their loved ones. (For the brave, read the sobering report "Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century" and "Secondary Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century").
I recommend that you gather your loved ones around the kitchen faucet and thank Jesus later tonight. ch:


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NightShade Books, 2008.
This zombie anthology received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. PW also named it one of the best books of 2008. HorrorScope called it "...absolutely the best zombie anthology" and a must read for anyone who has even a vague interest in zombie fiction.
Readers recommend getting the paperback version and NOT the Kindle version. Some readers note that stories may be missing from the Kindle version of this book. This may have been corrected since. You'll want to check the Kindle version's table of contents to be sure.
I can see why it had such a positive reception. Some of the top horror and fantasy writers contributed stories to the collection.
- Stephen King "Home Delivery" (also in Nightmares and Dreamscapes)
- Clive Barker "Sex, Death, and Starshine"
- Neil Gaiman "Bitter Grounds"
- George R. R. Martin "Meathouse Man"
- Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg "The Song the Zombie Song"
- Poppy Z. Brite "Calcutta, Lord of Nerves"
- Sherman Alexie "Ghost Dance"


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An eye for an eye: if Prince Charles thinks he can meddle with modernism, than surely modernism can mess up his mum's house. My proposal for the removal of the Palace, to be replaced by Buckingham Children's Hospital.
Bonnie Prince Charles is up to his tricks again. The British papers call him "the scourge of modern architecture", and with reason. The royal Anti-Modernist has been plastering his antiquarian views all over the shop, arguing that all new developments should be built in a mock-neoclassical style. To illustrate the point he had a town constructed, called Poundbury. Within it he designed a dumpy Georgian palace disguised as a fire station.
But it all really kicked off a couple of months ago when he got involved with Richard Rogers' £3 billion housing development for the Chelsea barracks site. He wrote to the owner, the Emir of Qatar, "one royal to another" to express his disapproval, in an act many called anti-constitutional. As a result Rogers lost the project, which put 5,000 workers out of a job. He is now suing Prince Charles. The worst part of the tale is that the scheme Rogers proposed was indeed pretty bad, making it hard for Modernists to argue its merits.
His most recent act of villainy has been directed at One New Change, Jean Nouvel's mall opposite St. Paul's Cathedral. Nouvel has been having quite a lot of problems with upstarts recently – he only just got back from NY, where he was forced to defend his Tour Verre. Stoically, even though he must think the whole world is against him right now, Nouvel said we shouldn't listen to Prince Charles or any other man that supports "pastiche" architecture.
Nouvel's One New Change, I heard in Paris that he turned up for the first meeting, put a toy Stealth Bomber on the desk and said "my building will look like this".
Charlie also recently threatened to resign from the National Trust unless they become more conservative, although his demands to gain veto power over all new Trust architectural developments are largely heresay, as documents pertaining to Royals are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.One Response to "PRINCE OF DARKNESS"
Poundbury looks interesting, though I would be interested to know how it responds to its climate (it clearly responds to socio-historic milieu in one way or another). I've got to say though, to me the debate between neo-neo-classicism and modernism and postmodernism and everything else is largely irrelevant unless the buildings are doing something new and interesting and most importantly successful in terms of 'green design.'
Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is going to be an interesting one to watch.
As for Nouvel's new mall in the photo, it looks like a standard stack of concrete floors, but with an interesting exterior…much like the Law building a the University of New South Wales.


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The National Weather Service accidentally issued a fake tsunami warning alert from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast.
The warning went out on some weather apps just before 8:30 a.m. Eastern, and was reported in areas from New Orleans and Houston to Palm Beach, Florida to Maine.
The alert said a tsunami warning was in effect.
About 20 minutes later, Accuweather tweeted that the push notification was just a test.
The National Weather Service is also tweeting, saying there never was a threat of a tsunami.
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Whenever I came into Maiduguri, admittedly seldom in the last few years, I always found it difficult to separate the consciousness of the reporter from that of the homeboy. Maiduguri is my home. I was born and raised there but have now been working and living in Abuja for close to twenty years. Maiduguri has now become a reporter's galore for news and analyses and as one is now part of the reporters' clan, it would not be easy for one to want to shut his eyes from looking for what to report. After all Maiduguri had now become famous world-wide, albeit for the wrong reasons. Even my travel-weary friends have told me that they were never surprised to find the name Maiduguri featuring in the most inconsequential news rag in the furthest country one could think of.
I was there last week for a considerable period - more than half of the week - and for the first time one noted that the positive changes in the town since my last visit in July were becoming rooted. No doubt Maiduguri has had a rough tumble from one of the most peaceful and prosperous cities in the land to probably the most terrifying place to live in Nigeria. At the height of the insurgency those of us that had families and relations in Maiduguri and had to risk journeys there endured the most harrowing time on the road.
For me a journey to the town from Abuja that normally took less than twelve hours could extend to anything between one or two days due to the innumerable security checkpoints in the whole stretch of the way. It was definitely worse for those who lived there. At least for the sojourners there was hope of getting away to saner climes. But for those who had no other place to go to, it was one long nightmare having to contend with the murderous elements that had virtually taken over the town, maiming, killing and plundering at will. It took a while for our combined security forces to get rid of the menace but by doing so they were released into the surrounding towns and villages.
Even at that Maiduguri did not see peace as the town was cluttered with security check points complete with the usual frightening paraphernalia; heaps of sandbags, military vehicles, and dour looking soldiers holding guns. For years the checkpoints choked the town and made it well-nigh impossible for free movement thus hampering trade and other day-to-day activities. And as the Boko Haram elements occupied the surrounding towns and villages displaced persons streamed into Maiduguri probably doubling its population and putting intense pressure on the available infrastructure.
At a time there was no electricity for months and when the insurgents were audacious enough to attack the airport, even air travel shut down for months also. To compound the tragic events all the roads linking out to other parts of the state and particularly to Cameron, Chad and Niger, countries contiguous to Borno State were all closed due to the terrorizing activities of the insurgents. Maiduguri relied on the Damaturu outlet for survival. Even that was tenuous as the insurgents could appear and engage our security forces in gun battles on the road thus shutting it for hours and creating a vehicles queue running for kilometres.
When I came into Maiduguri last week I found a city bustling with new found energy. Most of the security checkpoints had gone into the shadows releasing their iron-grip on free movement. Business activities were the obvious winners. You could see in the vigour of the people rushing about that life is gradually returning to normal. I drove round the town from the airport to the University, to Gamboru road, to federal low- cost housing units and back to Dandal and then to Monday market, ending up in the GRA. The town was obviously at peace and there were frantic business activities going on all over. In the night I drove out and was astounded to even find functioning street lights all over the town. Shops were opened and people were swarming the streets. There was a palpable absence of fear.
I even learnt that the Maiduguri to Monguno, Kukawa to Baga road is now opened and could be plied without military escorts. This means traders could now the access the Baga lucrative dried-fish trading outpost on the shores of Lake Chad. The road from Kukawa to Damasak is also opened allowing access to Diffa, the link with our cousins in Niger Republic. The challenge before our government now is how to tidy up affairs in the Damboa-Bama-Gwoza axis as well as the Dikwa-Marte-Gamboru side. So long as the Boko Haram murderous elements were deemed to be present in those areas it would not be expedient to return the hundreds of thousands of the refugees staying in camps in Maiduguri. The refugees must be tired and are obviously longing to be back to where they belong. One can understand the reasons behind the recent protest of the Bama IDPs and hope that the authorities also would look at it that way and drop the idea of prosecuting those arrested. The fight against the insurgents must be intensified to enable Borno State Government repatriate the refugees to their abode.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 9th October all roads will be leading to Arewa House Kaduna, where the Arewa Research and Development Project (ARDP) will be holding a two-day conference to brainstorm on the issues surrounding restructuring and the future of the Nigerian Federation. The ARPD is a platform based in Arewa House which pools together pockets of Northern groups who share the aim of transformation and development of the North. I know that the outfit has done plenty of good work since it came into being recently, particularly in collaboration with many Northern States Governments seeking improvement in agriculture, industrialization, minerals exploitation, etc. I am therefore not surprised that APRD is championing taking a clear position on restructuring which has become a very emotive issue now.
The Convener of ARPD is a well-known political activist, Dr Usman Bugaje, whose passion for tackling issues affecting the socio-economic development of the North is well regarded. In fact those of us who have known him since his student activist days in Zaria in the early 1970s know that he is passion-driven in these kinds of endeavours. Recently one of the reasons he gave for turning down an ambassadorial appointment was for him to be focussed in the affairs of the ARPD. The Chairman of the outfit, General John Shagaya, a civil war veteran and Senator has been known for his strong participation in all matters affecting the North. It will be a great gathering worth attending.
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Buhari Hassan has written from Kaduna: Cannot recall the exact words but a Chief Secretary in the United Kingdom was quoted to have responded to a question about civil servants from Queen Victoria that 'civil servants are people who sit on chairs, behind tables, unseen, unheard and write, write and write'. Pray with Perm Secs so conspicuously visible nowadays are they really civil servants as per that description?
Buhari, Perm Secs in the Nigerian Civil Service ate the proverbial forbidden fruit in 1966 when General Aguiyi Ironsi, then Head of State kept them as head of ministries and did not appoint Ministers throughout his short tenure and they also played a key role during the impasse of July 1966 before General Yakubu Gowon emerged as Head of State. General Gowon kept them in high esteem though his long tenure. Even recently President Buhari kept them as head of ministries for so long before he appointed Ministers. And now some states such as Bauchi do not have Commissioners. So, why would Perm Secs not be conspicuous? I will return to the subject another day.
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6 day ago - _The Bad Batch_ ticked so many of my aesthetic boxes going in, that I didn't see any possible way that I could hate it. And I didn't, but it does make me worry, that if someone like me could come out of _The Bad Batch_ just "liking" it, then how will a more general audience respond? My assumption is that it's probably not favourably. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn't quite work as a whole._
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10 day ago - **In the land of savages!** The overall concept was good, but I did not like the initiation. I don't like any film of cannibalism. I don't know why such films are made. What's the point! Definitely not entertainment or art. It could only encourage such savage culture. So I thought I made a mistake picking it to watch. Except the opening, the rest of the film was different. Then ended as a just below average product. In a near future, where all the criminals, illegal immigrants are dumped in a waste desert land. So they have made their own system, divided by two. One the savages and the other is kind of civilised, but not without flaws. A new arrival who experience from both the end, had to decide where she belongs when a series of bad events had taken place. Here comes another film from a woman director. Her previous film was one of the worst in the history of filmdom. And again this is not her best work either. Though I liked the cast. They all performed well, particularly Jim Carrey. Yes, I did not recognise him at first. Then there's Keanu Reeves. But Waterhouse was good. I wish her a good future. Generally not recommended, but then it's your choice! _5/10_


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Hey kids, guess what time it is!
Yes, it's time once again for History You Don't Care About, so quick, grab your parents and flee until this potential menace of learning blows over.
Dallas Cowboys oligarch Jerry Jones is threatening his fellow National Football League owners with the high-priced lawyer to the stars and scars David Boies, all over his ongoing jihad with commissioner Roger Goodell. The reason du jour, by all accounts, is Ezekiel Elliott, and whether Goodell told Jones he would not suspend the running back.
The real reason, of course, is so that Jones can run the league to his own specifications without bureaucratic interference. Billionaire's prerogative, I think it's called, and its coat of arms is a gigantic gray-haired man holding a scepter of Bitcoins and stock certificates while wearing a crown and an ermine cape while sitting on a throne of skulls and tattered wallets.
This reminds us that Jones' entry into the league was highlighted by the way he cozied up to and tried to emulate the last NFL owner to fight a commissioner and league single-handed, Al Davis. Davis won the right to relocate his team (Raiders II) in court, but his war against Pete Rozelle ended short of this level on enmity only because Rozelle resigned before Davis could finish the job.
That was in the fun-filled '80s, when the richest teams were worth about one-fifth what the Cowboys are worth today, so you see Goodell's main line of defense – as well as Jones' leading avenue of attack.
The closest any other sport has come to mutiny was when five baseball owners (known collectively as The Great Lakes Gang, in that they came from Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota and Los Angeles) gathered a majority of their brethren to force Fay Vincent's resignation in 1992. That wasn't singlehanded treachery, though, but the will of the majority in the face of overwhelming logic – another valuable lesson in the limits of democracy.
But Jones' action is also against the other owners trying to flaunt his petulant will, which brings to mind one other great battle in owner-on-owner crime, when in 1917 four of the National Hockey Association's five team owners met to expel the fifth team, the Toronto Blueshirts, if it didn't separate itself from its owner, Eddie Livingstone. When the team refused, the league disbanded and a week later reformed as a four-team league without Livingstone or his employees.
We mention that not because this is the 100th anniversary of that brilliant parliamentary maneuver – burn the village down around the guy you don't like and build a new village up the street – but because the idea of Jerry Jones as the owner of a National Football League with one team is, well, hilarious in any era.
Then again, that would mean rooting for the other 31, and there are simply some frontiers we cannot in good conscience travel.
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I'm crushing on the girls in refugee camps who will grow up and serve others on UN panels and in Human Rights High Courts. I am crushing on sustainable designers who love fashion and being stylish, but also like sleeping at night with a clear conscious that no one is suffering because of their sartorial folly. I am totally crushing on the woman who knows a strong body and mind is deeply connected to what she eats, and she like other community ninja warrior goddesses, need to keep their strength up for kind battles and shared victories. I am crushing on every urban homesteading girl-woman, every homesteadista who recognizes herself as a pioneer of sorts - a woman paving the way for self-sufficiency (economic and environmental), an abundant and joyous life without being wasteful, connected living that may include communal spaces, or being active in their local and global community. I'm crushing on women who are in tune with their self, values and goals so they find it almost effortless to treat the environment, the people and living beings that inhabit it with respect, kindness and awe. I'm passionate about being the embodiment of this woman and leading other women to that sacred space where they can chart their own course.
I dream of women making the biggest difference yet. This week, in honor of the late Martin Luther King, Jr. and Michelle Obama's birthday as well as the final farewell to the Obamas for their terrific service and outstanding character, I'd like to introduce a series of Profiles of women who are putting to life a dream they have to make a difference in our world. Some of these amazing women are social activists, some are artists, filmmakers, designers and policy makers. They are all change-makers and influencers. And they embody those traits, those smiles and dances and attentiveness that all my girl crushes possess.
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Myers Wins Board Seat
Contributing teacher member Tim Myers was reelected to the State Teachers Retirement Board in the 2016 election. The term for this seat begins Sept. 1, 2016, and ends on Aug. 31 2020.
Board Considers Updates to Strategic Goals Document
During the May meeting of the State Teachers Retirement Board, STRS Ohio executive director Michael Nehf reviewed changes that staff is recommending to STRS Ohio's Strategic Goals document. The Strategic Goals document provides an overview of the retirement system's goals, along with objectives and initiatives developed to meet the approved strategic goals.
Staff's recommended changes include adding a new strategic goal to address STRS Ohio's health care funding challenges. Proposed objectives under this new goal include:
- Determine the components that deliver a plan that represents a good value;
- Evaluate the impact of additional health care plan changes on enrollees and the health care program's funding;
- Work with membership and stakeholder groups on approaches to increase funding; and
- Continue open and honest communication with the membership and stakeholders.
Staff also recommended adding a new objective to address business continuity and disaster recovery to the current strategic goal, "Ensure a high level of quality service to STRS Ohio members." The proposed objective will direct staff to focus on further strengthening business continuity capabilities.
Staff requested that the board take action on these proposed updates at its June meeting.
Board Reviews Preliminary 2017 Health Care Premiums; Amends April Reduction in Subsidies for Non-Medicare Benefit Recipients
At its April meeting, the Retirement Board approved changes to the health care program for 2017, and some of these changes impact the premiums that enrollees will pay next year. At its May meeting, the board got a first look at proposed health care premiums for the 2017 plan year. Staff conferred with health care consultants and actuaries to determine the expected costs for the self-insured and fully insured programs.
Due to action the board approved in April to reduce the subsidy multiplier to 1.8% per year of service (from 2.1%) for non-Medicare benefit recipients, proposed premiums climbed sharply for this group. Following discussion during the May meeting, the board voted to amend its action taken at the April meeting, changing the subsidy multiplier to 1.9% per year of service for non-Medicare benefit recipients — a move that reduces the proposed premium increase for this group. Next month, the board is expected to vote on health care premiums for the 2017 plan year. Once approved, the premiums will be posted on STRS Ohio's website.
Retirements Approved
The Retirement Board approved 38 active members and 76 inactive members for service retirement benefits.
Other STRS Ohio News
Defined Contribution Plan Assets Reach $1 Billion
Nearly 15 years after its inception, assets in the STRS Ohio Defined Contribution (DC) Plan exceeded $1 billion in April 2016. A total of 20,505 members are enrolled in the DC and Combined plans, with 63% in the DC Plan and 37% in the Combined Plan. Members enrolled in these plans have 16 allocation options managed by STRS Ohio. One option is the STRS Total Guaranteed Return Choice that provides a guaranteed interest rate on contributions and transfers. In addition, there are seven different Target Choice Options that pinpoint a year in the future that would roughly match a participant's retirement date and adjust allocations over time. Other options range from the conservative STRS Money Market Choice to a small company equity choice and an international equity index.


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Monday, December 22, 2014
Chaos: Never Change 2 (Mixtape)
Capitalizing off of the buzz and success of the original, Newark bred Hip Hop artist Chaos has released Never Change 2 featuring well known Hot 97 DJs Naim and Drewski, as well as Wallah. The 12-track project was released this past Friday, is now available of DatPiff.
Monday, December 15, 2014
NEW LUTHER VANDROSS SONG: Love It Love It [track inside]
Monday, December 1, 2014
Cameron Jay: Money Sex Drugs and Liquor (Mixtape)
Monday, September 15, 2014
Kwan Lee: Gotta Go Back to Cali (Featured Lyrics of the Week)
Cali, palm trees/ green legal, so its hella weed.
Damn, 3 days straight 80/ who got the flight plug, we out baby.
Rodayo, daygo/ I'm brooklyn, homie where the hood though.
Cousin out there, and he maxed out/
new wears on, in the club macked out.
Tell lucy, bring a couple friends though/
if the crew come, make em all friends yo.
Yup, while I'm phonin home, et/ reassure my shorty, no cheating.
Baby all night, baby all night/ baby all night Baby all night, no no no / no hoe ohs.
Yup, still ot jonesin/ homie said fuck that, he bonin.
Hit off ciroc, and the belaire / asked can he tape it, she don't care.
Put the cam on, show the booty HD/
have you ever seen a booty, off the 5d.
Full frame, and the shit clear/ send to avn, get the porno of the year.
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.....)
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Behind The Scenes: Miracle D Rellz X Niz Cash "Business Over Pleasure"
Check out some on-set visuals of Miracle D Rellz Business Over Pleasure video shoot, featuring Niz Cash. On a bright sunny day in the South Bronx, the Booted Out Ent team got together to show love; check out cameos by Dolla Man, Miss Irie, DaCor Capone and more.
#GSM invades Invisible Bully clothing Event!!!
D Roc on his BULLY yo'….
By @renegade_reign
On Tuesday July 22, 2014 at Footaction in herald Square, hundreds of people came out to show love and support for Invisible Bully. A fresh, fly, new clothing line founded by D Roc, longtime friend of the undisputed king of new York, the Notorious B.I.G. Security was tight and pop o was on deck, but none of that was needed as no harmful incidents occurred.
"We're just out here showing love for Brooklyn", said one supporter when asked what brought them out.
The reason for all of the celebration was Invisible Bully's debut into Footaction. 15 years ago, Biggie and D Roc started a clothing company called Brooklyn Mint for big and tall guys. Sadly, due to Big's untimely death, Brooklyn Mint never reached its full potential. Never one to give up, D Roc kept grinding until his deferred dream became a reality. Thus, Invisible Bully was born.
With the event beyond capacity, everyone's energy was high as the We Dem Boys remix video (Puff, Meek, French Montana) blasted on repeat. Invisible Bully street team members donned shirts and hats with the company's logo. They also carried signs and posed for pics with supporters.
"We're just out here keepin' the energy up and making sure everybody has a good time, nahmean'", said one Invisible Bully street team member, @youngty551.
Also in attendance for the event were some of your favorite celebrities. Reality power couple Yandi Smith and Mandeeces from Love and Hip Hop, Jadakiss and Styles P from The L.O.X, Brooklyn Rapper, Uncle Murda, Bow Wow, and actor Michael John Jeffries ( Get Rich or Die Trying, Notorious) were all on hand to show support for Invisible Bully. They signed autographs and took what seemed to be a million pics.
However, Hip Hop Superstar, French Montana received just a little more attention and praise from the fans out there. Upon his entry and exit into Footaction, fans went wild. All you heard was "haaaaaann!!!". The hometown favorite showed love back as he snapped pics and video of all his adoring fans.
All in all, it was definitely a movie out there. Fans left happy with Invisible Bully attire in addition to pics and autographs from their favorite celebs. Like always, #getsignedmagazine was at the hottest event in the city to bring you guys the scoop on what went down. Shout out to D Roc and the entire Footaction and Invisible Bully staff for creating such a memorable experience.
Fashion Report: Spoons N Forks Clothing
Friday, July 18, 2014
Meet PlayBeezy
Lamonte Newman, better known by his stage name Play Beezy was born in our nation's capital of Washington D. C. in 1987. Shortly after birth, his family relocated to Arlington, VA, where he then resided majority of his childhood. Play has always had a passion for music & song writing while growing up but by the age of 13, his music interest had evolved into an ambitious goal when his artistic skills were recognized by DMV Power Player, Text Sosa. From here on out, song writing and recording had become a priority.
While in and out of studios in attempt to solidify his style & sound, Play had linked up with childhood friend and fellow music artist AJ Milla as the rap duo "Young N Restless." Young N Restless performed at several venues which would eventually grant them the opportunity to be the opening act for several industry artists such as Graph, Comp, Maino, Chopper, Ness and more. By the age of 17, Play successfully dropped the notable mixtape, The Grind 2, as a member of the duo Young N Restless hosted by Text Sosa. The Grind 2 would eventually earn them recognition from outer cities and local fans, as well as, landing an article segment in the Washington City Paper for featured track Ms. Mary Mack.
Through landing local features and earning radio play at such a young age, Play was able to identify his career path as a music artist. and by 2010, Young N Restless had come to drop their final mixtape The Bar Code.
Soon after parting ways, Play Beezy continued his efforts for the love of music as a solo artist with his antipicated solo debut The Tip Off hosted by Dj Grady and "Mista D.M.V." better known as Dj Rob. His most recent compilation, "Word Play" hosted by Dj Grady and Dj Ben Frank, has given Play the recognition as a solid DMV solo artist who is patiently waiting for the right moment to explode.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Interstate Snake: Year of The Snake (Mixtape)
Virginia's own Interstate Snake has been working hard to build his name in the streets for a while now and it is finally starting to pay off, as his music has been featured on some of the more notable hip hop based websites in existence. With his self proclammation of being the next big thing out of Virginia, his new mixtape Year Of The Snake is the first in a long list of planned attacks on the game as we know it. WIth features from an impressive crop of well known artists the likes of Troy Ave, Cap 1, Fat Trel, and Tone Trump to name a few the stage is certainly set well. Interstate Snake seeks to substantiate his arrival. You have been warned ! Check out the tracklist below:
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Video: BrotherHood "New Reign"
Check out the visual for Brotherhood's new release, New Reign, directed by Crenshaw Slauson
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Tickey Boom Boom: Money Talks Silence Pays (Mixtape)
Check out Stable Musik Group's own Tickey Boom Boom
new mixtape Money Talks Silence Pays
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Saint Jude: Intro (Prey IV Me Mixtape)
Check out the Intro to Saint Jude's Prey Iv Me Mixtape available for download now
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Monday, June 2, 2014
Cristian Gabor: Spit That Dope (Behind The Scenes)
"Young ___ spit that dope"
And she definitely held serve on her Dope(remix) freestyle. Fire Flame Music Group's own Cristian Gabor got something for the people. She recently connected with the lovely ladies of BBS Promotions to shoot the visual for her remix. Check out some behind the scenes fun from the set. Video coming soon!
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Friday, May 30, 2014
Artist buzz: DaCor Capone
A jack of all trades, as he has been labeled by those that know him best, Dacor Capone is a promising recording artist hailing from the birthplace of Hip Hop, Bronx, NY. A renaissance man for all intents and purposes, The Booted Out Entertainment CEO is very hands on with his brand and his music, juggling the many hats that he wears from artist, producer, songwriter, videographer and more. With an impressive resume and work ethic which includes his stellar showings at well respected events such as the Top Mics Tour, Non Stop Ent Showcase, 5K Concert Series, Master Moo's 50 Models Miami Take Over Tour to name a few.
A jack of all trades, as he has been labeled by those that know him best, Dacor Capone is a promising recording artist hailing from the birthplace of Hip Hop, Bronx, NY. A renaissance man for all intents and purposes, The Booted Out Entertainment CEO is very hands on with his brand and his music, juggling the many hats that he wears from artist, producer, songwriter, videographer and more. With an impressive resume and work ethic which includes his stellar showings at well respected events such as the Top Mics Tour, Non Stop Ent Showcase, 5K Concert Series, Master Moo's 50 Models Miami Take Over Tour to name a few.
Fueled by his ambition, which has always been a tool for his success, as early as his teenage years DaCor understood that in order to leave his mark on this planet, as well as the industry which he was so fond of consistency and persistence were imperative. A student of the culture of Hip Hop, DaCor has spent the better part of the last 5 years perfecting his craft and enhancing his business sense using his work with respected brands such as Thisis50, Coast 2 Coast, Major Stage, as well as iGrind as a catapult in addition to his appearances on major internet radio broadcasts the likes of DTF Radio, In The Mixx Radio, Elegant Hoodness, GID Radio, and Da Matrix Studios.
The new year 2014 has been very good to the Booted Out Ent brand, led by the great feedback that has resulted from the release of DaCor's Married to My Hustle, Mixtape with all signs pointing towards the continuance of his growth as an artist and imprint owner.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Recap: Touch Me Tease Me Tuesdays @ Alex Steakhouse 5.20.14 (Presented by Rozas Dozens)
Highlights of last nights' #TouchMeTeaseMeTuesdays at Alex Steak House presented by Losing Isiah and Rozas Dozens. Each and every week they offer the best Afterwork / networking event in NYC, at the super plush Alex Steakhouse located in NYC's newest go-to neighborhood for nightlife, Washington Heights (184th & Broadway). With Music by DJ Prime AKA Tha Swag King, #TouchMeTeaseMeTuesdays is by far the best event on the agenda for Tuesdays. come through and witness for yourself. Oh did I mention $.50 wings, and $ mixed drinks. Best that makes it sound even better. See you next Tuesday
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